NGAIO MARSH

INSPECTOR ALLEYN 3-BOOK COLLECTION 10:

Black As He’s Painted, Last Ditch, Grave Mistake

Copyright

These novels are entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

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Black As He’s Painted first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1974 Last Ditch first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1977 Grave Mistake first published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1978 Evil Liver first published in Great Britain in Death on the Air and Other Stories by HarperCollinsPublishers 1995

Copyright © Ngaio Marsh Ltd 1974, 1977, 1978

Evil Liver copyright © Ngaio Marsh (Jersey) Ltd 1989

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Source ISBNs: 9780007344833, 9780007344840, 9780007344857

Ebook Edition © MARCH 2014 ISBN: 9780007531448

Version: 2018-08-23

Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Black As He’s Painted

Last Ditch

Grave Mistake

BONUS STORY: Evil Liver

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Keep Reading

Also by the Author

About the Publisher

Black As He’s Painted

Dedication

For Roses and Mike with love

Contents

Title Page

Dedication

Cast of Characters

Map

1 Mr Whipplestone

2 Lucy Lockett

3 Catastrophe

4 Aftermath

5 Small Hours

6 Afternoon in the Capricorns

7 Mr Sheridan’s Past

8 Keeping Obbo

9 Climax

10 Epilogue

Coda

Acknowledgement

Cast of Characters

Mr Samuel Whipplestone |  | Foreign Office (retired)
Lucy Lockett |  | A cat
The Ambassador in London for Ng’ombwana |
A Lady |  |
A Young Gentleman | Of Messrs Able & Virtue |
A Youth | Land & Estate Agents |
Chubb |  | House Servant
Mrs Chubb |  | His wife
A Veterinary Surgeon |  |
Mr Sheridan |  | No.1a Capricorn Walk (basement flat)
His Excellency |  | The Boomer, President of Ng’ombwana
Bartholomew Opala, CBE |  |
An ADC |  |
Mr and Mrs Pirelli |  | Of the Napoli, shop-keepers
Colonel Cockburn-Montfort |  | Late of the Ng’ombwanan Army (retired)
Mrs Cockburn-Montfort |  | His wife
Kenneth Sanskrit |  | Late of Ng’ombwana. Merchant
Xenoclea Sanskrit |  | His sister. Of the Piggie Pottery, Capricorn Mews, SW3
A mlinzi |  | Spear Carrier to The Boomer
Sir George Alleyn, KCMG, etc. etc. |  |
Superintendent Roderick Alleyn |  | CID
Troy Alleyn |  | Painter. His wife
Inspector Fox |  | CID
Superintendent Gibson |  | Special Branch, CID
Jacks |  | A talented sergeant
Detective-Sergeant Bailey |  | A finger-print expert
Detective-Sergeant Thompson |  | A photographer
Sundry police, Ng’ombwanan servants and frequenters of the Capricorns, SW3 |  |

Map

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